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Hi everyone, and welcome to my bi-lingual English Italian blog! Here you will find every post written firstly in English and then (badly!) in Italian. I welcome all your suggestions, comments, emails and (above all) your corrections!

giovedì 18 settembre 2008

One of my favourite authors is the late Raymond Carver, so I was thrilled to find a copy of one of his stories on the bilingual site ERCOLE GUIDI. The story is ‘Blackbird Pie’, and like all of Carver’s stories, it is deceptively simple, and utterly brilliant.

Incidentally, I have a copy of myself reading the English version of the story, if anyone is desperate to hear the story read by an English native speaker. It’s not the best of recordings (you can hear the TV faintly in the background!) but it’s not terrible either.

Anyway, the last time I visited Rome, I bought his collection of stories ‘CATHEDRAL’ in Italian - I also have the book in ENGLISH, and it’s fascinating to read the two versions side by side! Highly recommended!